- Bookseller: marilyn braiterman rare books
- Seller Inventory #: 3398
- Format: H Gilt-pictorial Cloth
- Book condition: Fine.
- Jacket condition: J Partial
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: James Pott
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1902
Book Description
New York: James Pott. 1902. Small 8vo. H Gilt-pictorial Cloth. Fine.. Small 8vo, black cloth with gilt vignettes of Jewish male and female heads, surrounding mounted photographic illustrations. Spine gilt-lettered with pawn broker's device. Fine and bright in dust jacket with part of spine missing . Photographic illustrations. Stories based on daily life in New York City's Lower East Side. Warfield was an actor and playwright.
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dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
device : A printers mark which usually appears on either the colophon or the title page.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
